Criticism Strong opposition to the proposed 50 per cent. increase in rates, taxes, and other licence fees by the Shanghai Municipal Council was voiced by Mr, Yukichi Hayashi, President of the Federation of Amalgamated Japanese Street Unions in Shanghai, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday, "We can never agree to the proposed increase of this time, Hayashi, representative of the man" in Shanghai's Japanese community said. "It may be well remembered that the 20 per cent. increase of eight years ago caused great indignation among the ratepayer he was further reported to have said. The F.AJ.S.U, is the representative body of various Japanese neighbourhood organizations in Shanghai.
Should the proposed rate increase go into effect, the "Shanghai Mainichi" pointed out, Japanese residents will have to pay the S.M.C. 12 times as much as they would pay to the Japanese Residents' Corporation, The present ratio is 8 to 1, the daily reported.
While the J.R.C. funds are mostly used for educational purposes, the newspaper said, the "greater part" of the S.M.C. income goes into the salaries of British and other high officials. With one official receiving $10,000 a month, the lowest-paid Chinese gets $18, the "Mainichi" pointed out, national relationships in such a way that our nation and all nations can prosper and be at peace."
Mr, Hull said the trade programme would help cushion the economic shock which would result when the 100,000,000 men now engaged in war Work throughout the world seek private employment. The State Department, he said, has been proceeding on the theory that either complete totalitarianism or "sanity" will dictate trade policies at the end of the" wars.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, asked the Secretary of State if there was anything inconsistent in the United States' concluding barter agreements with China and Britain in view of the reciprocal programme, Mr. Hull replied that anything could be justified which made progress against adverse economic conditions. He denounced the theory that the United States should merely defend its own sea coasts and disregard the remainder of the world. Such a practice would mean the relinquishment of the world's ocean highways to the "most lawless elements of the world", he said.
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